{"id":72,"date":"2011-10-22T23:09:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T04:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=72"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:52:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:52:31","slug":"roy-john-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/roy-john-f\/","title":{"rendered":"ROY, John F."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ROY, John F<\/strong>. &#8212; banker, born Front Royal, Va., Aug. 15, 1845; Scotch descent; son of <strong>Beverly and Jane (Lawrence) Roy<\/strong>; father&#8217;s occupation, miller; received common school education; married <strong>Helen F. YEARGIN<\/strong> Feb. 24, 1870; Democrat; organized Bank of Alexandria in 1888, cashier of same for 22 years; elected president Bank of Alexandria (Tenn.) 1909, which position he now holds; has organized banks at Watertown, Algood, Smithville, Gassaway and Hickman (Tenn.) being a director in the last two; general manager and principal owner of the implement and warehouse business of Roy &amp; Jones, established 1890; member Masons and M. E. church, South.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<i>\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROY, John F. &#8212; banker, born Front Royal, Va., Aug. 15, 1845; Scotch descent; son of Beverly and Jane (Lawrence) Roy; father&#8217;s occupation, miller; received common school education; married Helen F. YEARGIN Feb. 24, 1870; Democrat; organized Bank of Alexandria in 1888, cashier of same for 22 years; elected president Bank of Alexandria (Tenn.) 1909, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,87,4062,4419],"tags":[4340,99,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-72","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dekalb","7":"category-surname-r","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-lawrence","11":"tag-roy","12":"tag-yeargin","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13947,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/13947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}